Humble Bundle - Warhammer 40k: Dark Heresy, Black Crusade, and Only War

My return to the world of playing RPGs after a decade's absence was via Dark Heresy and Fantasy Grounds. I saw a Dark Heresy Game posted on the Fantasy Grounds Forums looking for players and I jumped at it, and then I bought the rulebook ;)

The game lasted a few months and it cemented my return to RPGs and was soon followed by a short Warhammer FRP campaign and a longer Castles & Crusades campaign. The rest, as they say, is history.

I may need to grab Warhammer 40k: Dark Heresy, Black Crusade, and Only War Humble Bundle just for nostalgia!

Explore the darkest, most brutal corners of the galaxy in three distinctive role-playing games set in the grim future of Warhammer 40,000! Featuring 40+ essential rulebooks and supplemental tomes filled with new possibilities for characters and campaigns, this library will fuel your own tales of conflict between the Imperium and Chaos for eons to come.

Root out the vile corruption that threatens humanity as an Acolyte of the Inquisition in Dark Heresy.

Hold the line against the coming night as a brave member of the God-Emperor’s Imperial Guard in Only War.

Become a Disciple of the Dark Gods and spread terror across the stars in Black Crusade.

Experience the vast universe of Warhammer 40,000K Roleplay from whole new perspectives, and help support Children’s Health Ireland with your purchase.

 

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State of The Tavern - What Doth Spring Bring?

It's about time for a State of The Tavern update, and here it is, with Spring right around the corner. Just think - three years ago, as a society we were at the horrible beginning of the Pandemic, and I was suffering from undiagnosed Congestive Heart Failure. We've come far in the last three years :)

Status of Continual Light (SWCL) 2e - I'm waiting for the 3.5 SRD to be added to the Creative Commons 4.0 by WotC. It is the SRD that Continual Light is derived from, and I have little faith that the OGL will remain in place. More on that at a later time.

Status of Torchlight Zine - Torchlight will return after we get Continual Light 2e out the door. These two questions are the ones I've been consistently asked, and with good reason.

Pub Crawls - a series of one-sheet or micro-adventures. Third on the list and third in line. We'll get there at some point. Bad Mike already has a few ready to be laid out and released.

Tenkar's Tavern Youtube Channel - Going strong. We've had a significant uptick in subscribers thanks to the OGL fiasco. Livestreams continue on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday Nights. The content is also being backed up on Rumble, because of attempts by "a certain individual" to remove certain content from the Youtube Channel. Wednesday night Tavern Chat Live with Bad Mike has guests booked through the end of April. Huzzah!

The next convention for Rach and I will be NTRPG Con. I'm looking forward to seeing many of you there :)

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Bundle of Holding - KoDT Trouble 4

I'm a huge fan of Knights of the Dinner Table. I've been collecting off and on since Issue #1, but my early issues are in storage. Whenever the digital collections come up on Bundle of Holding, I snag them. KoDT Trouble 4 is gonna be snagged after I put this post up. 

Hoody-hoo! This all-new KoDT Trouble 4 Quick Deal is our fourth collection of .PDFs featuring Jolly R. Blackburn's long-running comic about tabletop roleplaying, Knights of the Dinner Table from Kenzer & Company. In every issue of KoDT, the players in B. A. Felton's HackMaster campaign find so many devious new ways to torment their Gamemaster, you'll say "They're just like my players!"

For many years Kenzer has reprinted back issues of KoDT, three or four issues at a time, in its Bundle of Trouble compilations. In previous offers we've presented the first 30 compilations. We still have a lot of catching-up to do, because the compilations have already reached Volume 73! Let's keep making headway with this bargain-priced "bundle of Bundles" that brings you DRM-free .PDF ebooks of Bundle of Trouble Volumes 31-40 – collecting KoDT issues #101 through #138 (2005-2008) – a total retail value of $121 for just US$19.95. Even if you're new to the Knights' dinner table, these collections make it easy to pull up a chair and enjoy the longest-running and most successful comic strip in RPG history.

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Humble Bundle - Shadowrun 5e Mega Bundle

I was an early fan of Shadowrun, snagging the rulebook when it was first released during my college years. I simply could not convince any in my group to create a character, let alone play a session. Ah well.

Currently, on Humble Bundle, the complete Shadowrun 5e Mega Bundle of 17 titles can be snagged for 18 bucks. I think I'm all in...

Become a Shadowrunner

Hide. Survive. Do what it takes, and you might even thrive inside the cracks in the world of Shadowrun—the legendary tabletop role-playing game that splices fantasy and cyberpunk sci-fi. This mega bundle features everything runners need to make a dangerous living on the streets and in the Matrix, including the Core Rulebook (5E), guides to armed combat and street magic, and more sourcebooks exploring the dystopian Sixth World. Plus, your purchase helps support Global FoodBanking Network!

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Kickstarter - Dungeon Denizens (DCC and 5e Monster Book by Goodman Games)

500 monsters for 5E & DCC RPG! Kickstarter backers receive a bonus monster! Epic full-color hardcover with PDF+VTT support!

I REALLY enjoy Goodman Games Kickstarters, even if I don't play 5e or the DCC RPG. Settings, modules, and such are just so easy to convert to the OSR system of your choice, even on the fly, that it makes such backing something I don't even need to think about before pulling the trigger.

Dungeon Denizens made me think for a few minutes before pulling the trigger.

The idea with the DCC RPG was that there WERE no standard monsters. Creatures were unique to the adventure they were found in. Orcs, goblins, giants, and the rest were kicked to the curb in favor of their more unique cousins.

Dungeon Denizens gives you 500 creatures for your DCC (or 5e) game, making them somewhat less unique I guess. Thus my hesitation. That being said, I AM backing at $49 for the print plus pdf book. Sure, there are add-ons that look cool, but I'll never use them.

Shit, it's from Goodman Games. I'm pretty sure I'll get my monies worth ;)

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Deal of the Day - RPGPundit Presents: World of the Last Sun

Ah, the RPG Pundit. Love him or loath him, his OSR material is ALWAYS very solid. Today's Deal of the Day at DTRPG happens to be RPGPundit Presents: World of the Last Sun.

This is a compilation of Gonzo-Fantasy material from various issues of RPGPundit Presents. It is not simply these issues thrown together. Rather, this tome acts as a sourcebook for RPGPundit's World of the Last Sun gonzo-fantasy setting. It features...

• Details of the World of the Last Sun.
• Multiple Regional Campaign Locations that can also be added to your own worlds.
• Weird fantasy races.
• High-tech fantasy Equipment.
• Rules for ordinary and magical drugs.
• Rules for Skyship Combat.
• Random encounter and location tables.
• Random tables for weird character origins and encounters.
• Fans of RPGPundit Presents have been asking for this book. If you have not yet tried an issue of RPGPundit Presents, this is a great way to start. This sourcebook for fantasy-gonzo OSR games provides new avenues for adventure and lots of inspirational material.

Normally 12.95 in PDF, until tomorrow morning RPGPundit Presents: World of the Last Sun is on sale for 6.47

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Just a quick check-in.....

Special Note: I'm seriously jet-lagged and have one whole day to transition to local time for work (yeah!)....and I'm fighting some odd cold/flu so mentally I'm maybe not all here. You've been warned...

So I've been out of the country for the last month and I've been just so damned shock on how...limited gaming opportunities are outside of the US. During the month I didn't see a single comic book, RPG book, or even dice out in the wild. The nearest "board game store" was more than 45' away. Compare that to having not only a FLGS at home, but being able to find dice at the Dollar Store, D&D Books at the local WalMart.

.....but at least I was able to get to the end of Baldur's Gate for the first time. I probably have 200+ hours on the game, but never had finished it. I also did some work/prep for North Texas RPG Con and spent probably too much money on NTRPG Auctions.

I did almost have a game while I was in Europe, but I was a moron and calculated the time I needed to get up wrong, so I woke up an hour after the game was supposed to start.

In short: this year hasn't been too good for gaming for me.

Thankfully I'm not too concerned about the short term anyway. The rest of the year is going to be awesome. I'm prepping for this year's Whisky Tasting at NTRPG, which will be the 3rd Official (4th Unofficial) year for the event. While I did already have the Whiskies procured for this year, those bottles have now been set aside for use next year 'cause this year will be some relatively-hard-to-procure bottles. The tasting kits are being remade and once I figure things out I'll know how many attendees I can support. There's five spots already reserved and the con will get the rest to figure out how they want to fill the event.

I've got some other gaming-related projects in the works.....and I should be slinging dice next weekend...after I get to do some shopping at my FLGS. I don't need anything there, but I have to go....

 

Humble Bundle - Castles & Crusades from Troll Lord Games

Seek gold and glory in worlds filled with treasure-hoarding dragons, terrifying undead, and creatures of legend in Troll Lord Games’ tabletop RPG Castles & Crusades!

Castles & Crusades was the first OSR game I found, finding the C&C Players Handbook for less than 10 bucks over at Buy.com.

It's a very solid system, plays very well, and has tons of support. It reminds me very much of AD&D 1e in its feel and play.

You can get the complete Castles & Crusades Bundle, 37 items, for 18 bucks.

If you want to check out the C&C Players Handbook, you can snag it for free in PDF at the Troll Lord's website.

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Shadowdark Session Zero/Session 0.5 Will Be Tonight's Random Party Generator Livestream @ 8 PM Eastern

Tonight we are going to be breaking a few rules as we test some new rules. I always swore that I would NEVER broadcast an actual gaming session with my group, as it would likely fail all tests of civility and any sort of correctness. But when my cohosts on the Random Party Generator Livestream started talking about running a session of Shadowdark as a live stream, I never thought of saying "we can't do it". My cohosts actually double as my gaming group, and it was a perfect fit.

Now, I need to state the following, which should be obvious to anyone that follows this blog or our YouTube Channel:

No one at the Arcane Library contacted ANY of us to run and broadcast this session. None of us know anyone at the Arcane Library. Kelsey likely doesn't know us from a hole in the wall. No of us have been offered ANY compensation of ANY sort to run and broadcast this session. 

I'm sure most of you are wondering why I felt I had to include the above. Let's just say there are some who feel the coverage of Shadowdark is "less than organic". As I've seen ads for Shadowdark on Facebook, and it is certainly being pushed, but we, the above, are doing this live stream out of our own curiosity. Go figure ;)

Here's the blurb from tonight's live stream:

Tonight on the Random Party Generator Livestream, Matt Jackson (mapper extraordinaire) will be putting Tim Shorts, Rob Conley, JoetheLawyer, Greg Christopher, and yours truly, Erik Tenkar, through a Session Zero/ Session .5 of Shadowdark, the 5e/OSR "bridge system" that everyone is talking about. The best way to grasp an RPG is to put it through its paces, which is what we intend to do tonight.

 

Jonathan M. Thompson Memorial Bundle (DTRPG)

When I was at Totalcon two weeks ago, I found out that Jonathan M. Thompson had passed. I was blessed to be able to share the GoFundMe to help Jonathan's family with their related expenses. 

Today I'm sharing the Jonathan M Thompson Memorial Bundle over at DTRPG. Pinnacle took the lead on this, but there are dozens of donors of RPG material, including yours truly, as every purchaser of the bundle gets a copy of Swords & Wizardry Continual Light as well as 147 other titles for a mere 25 bucks. It's for a good cause in the memory of a good man, and I ask that you simply give the page a look and decide if the offer interests you.

In addition to the $250 already donated to the above GoFundMe matching the donations of the members of this community, all monies raised from affiliate sales at DTRPG over the next 5 days will also be donated to Jonathan's GoFundMe.

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Bundle of Holding - Mystical Throne Guides (Historical Gaming Guides)

Mixing real-world history with RPGs mixes two passions of mine. Mythical Throne Guides do just that.

For 9.95, you get thirteen historical guides aimed at gamers like you and me.

What's included in the Mythical Throne Guides Bundle from Bundle of Holding?

Celts, pirates, Vikings, Knights Templar, Roman legions, feudal Japan, Renaissance France, Mongols, the Three Kingdoms, the Pinkertons, and gangs of New York!

Yep, I'm sold ;)

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Kickstarter - FIE, I SAY! The D6 Comedy-Fantasy-Parody RPG

I am a HUGE fan of Tim Sinder was my wife's, Rach, first GM at NTRPG Con many years ago, and definitely turned her into a gamer. TimeMaster for the win :)

Tim has a great sense of humor in gaming, and I expect nothing less from his FIE, I SAY! The D6 Comedy-Fantasy-Parody RPG Kickstarter. I've played in his TimeMaster and Toon games at NTRPG Con (along with Rach) and his comedic timing is second to none.

FIE, I SAY! is a humorous RPG in the vein of all of those other Serious Fantasy Roleplaying Games. (You know, the “Ampersand RPGs” that have dungeons, dragons, tunnels, trolls, castles, crusades, wizards, warriors, and other alliterations.) In this light-hearted parody of Old School Fantasy RPGs,  FIE, I SAY! encourages madcap adventures where the characters are out of their league, the villains are out of patience, and the players are likely out of their minds/

FIE, I SAY! is based on classic D6 RPG systems. For the newer gamers, you roll some six-siders and try to beat a difficulty number based on the difficulty of the task at hand. Roll high? Huzzah! Roll low? FIE, I SAY!

Every PC has four attributes that represent their core abilities, i.e., how strong, dexterous, intelligent, and charismatic they are. (NOTE TO SELF: I should find a way to abbreviate those.) Each attribute also has a specific skill the PC has trained in. The player rolls as many dice as their attribute/skill score and tries to beat the aforementioned difficulty number set by the Dice Meister, or "DM". (Ha! See what I did there?) The higher your score, the more dice you roll, increasing your odds of beating the difficulty number and succeeding!

I'm in for the $7 pledge,  FIE, I SAY! The D6 Comedy-Fantasy-Parody RPG Kickstarter, PDF plus POD at cost. I love Tim Snider, in a most platonic manner. Total respect Tim ;)

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Kickstarter - Shadowdark RPG: Old-School Gaming, Modernized

There's a bit of a debate going on online about Shadowdark. Is it 5e-based? Is it OSR? Something a bit of both? Does it even matter?

From what I've read of Shadowdark (you can snag the free Shadowdark Quickstart here) it has an old-school feel with some 5e-isms, such as advantage/disadvantage and the healing of ALL damage after 8 hours of successful rest (definitely NOT old-school healing). Combat is deadly, power increases much slower than 5e, and magic is NOT Vancian in nature. 

Shadowdark IS a very resource dependant system, and light (torches) are a huge part of that. Realtime=gametime when it comes to torchlight, and as none of the PC races/species/heredities have dark or infra-vision, it makes pacing a very integral part of the game.

No feats or skills, and abilities gained at each level are mostly random. I am not sure I'd run Shadowdark as written, but it has many intriguing twists that I do like. Heck, I'm not sure if I'd house-rule Shadowdark into something I'd prefer, or take another OSR system like Swords &Wizardry and add aspects of Shadowdark to it. Decisions, decisions ;)

I AM backing the Shadowdark Kickstarter at $159, for all the loot. If nothing else, I feel confident I'll give it an honest shake before trying to morph it into something similar and yet not. Again, the Shadowdark Quickstart is free, and you can grab the Shadowdark hardback via Kickstarter for $59 (PDF for $25).

Shadowdark RPG has familiar elements of classic fantasy gaming, but it isn't a retro-clone. A lot of new game design ideas have emerged in the last 50 years, and we wanted to bring our favorite concepts together into a nostalgic-but-new adventuring system.

In this game, torches only last one hour of real time. The characters (and players) must make decisions quickly, or they'll run out of precious light! 

A few other features include: 

• The four core classes: fighter, priest, thief, wizard
• A d20-based, roll-high system
• No darkvision — total darkness is dangerous 
• Treasure grants XP, and tracking it is dead simple
• Roll-to-cast spells — magic is exciting and risky
• Simple distances (close, near, far)
• Monster morale and reaction rolls
• Always-on initiative — time is easy to track
• The six classic stats (3d6 in order) 
• No skills — just ability checks and advantage/disadvantage
• Separate ancestry and class
• Randomized character class abilities — emergent character growth!
• Low hit points — fast and deadly combat
• Simple encumbrance (gear slots)

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International GM's Day

 

Yesterday was International GM's Day designed to "to honor and praise the incredible diligence and impartial rulings of a game master."

Now I don't know about that "mission statement", as it were, but it sounds laudable. To me March 4th is more about remembering the man, well one of the men, that brought us not just Dungeons & Dragons, but role playing games in general.

It seems lately there's been a huge upswing in books and documentaries about the early days of D&D and about Gary Gygax. I've backed a couple of documentary Kickstarters and picked up some of these books, but I haven't gone through them all (some have yet to arrive).

It's been 15 years now and I still remember hearing about Gary's passing. Unfortunately I never met the man, but I was friends with plenty who have met and gamed with him....and even though my contact, as it were, was 2nd hand, RPGS have been a huge source of joy to me and most of my friends have been made through gaming connections.

Back in 2008 I was working my way up the HackMaster GM ladder (Technically I only made it to being a Level 4 GM, but I had met the requirements for Level 5....just never submitted that paperwork). My (ex)wife and I had planned on a gaming weekend at our local university and we had guests coming in to Idaho from California, Utah, and even Tennessee! I was able to put our guests up at a local hotel (since I'd earned a lot of Marriott points at work) and we were able to take over a small conference room at Boise State's Student Union.

I don't remember if we had four or five games scheduled, but we did end up cancelling the late afternoon Saturday game and we all headed out to a local pizza place to just hang out and socialize outside of the gaming table. We talked about a lot of stuff.....conversations long since forgotten, but it was not lost on me how this one common thread of RPGs connected us, and thankfully, still connects some of us.

Fifteen years later some of those in attendance at our very own Garycon are still friends. Life happens and managed to get in the way of some of our bonds, but I still keep in touch with those I can. One buddy will be joining me at North Texas RPG Con, which I am really looking forward to. I think we're only scheduled for one game together (so far), but we'll have plenty of time to socialize outside of the table....again.

Gary Gygax day is on July 27th and that's the time to celebrate the man himself, but this weekend, at least for me, it's a time to reflect on the game in general, and how much it has impacted my life.

Kickstarter - Hârn World: Medieval Fantasy RPG SETTING Hardback

Harn was the second setting I found for use with AD&D IE, after the Greyhawk Folio. Harn was very different from Greyhawk because even though it was fictional, it felt very authentic. Where Greyhawk was fantastical, Harn was realistic. Harn was/is also systemless, so it could fit AD&D as easily as it could fit RuneQuest or Rolemaster, or any other fantasy RPG system.

Columbia Games is still publishing Harn, and hasn't moved the default timeline since the initial release, so your original material from the 1980s is still valid and usable with today's content.

Currently, Columbia Games is Kickstarting Hârn World: Medieval Fantasy RPG SETTING Hardback (and you also get the PDF). What exactly is included with your $69 pledge?

Not sure?

The HârnWorld Starter Kit includes HarnWorld and the Kingdom of Kaldor for 9.99 (full retail separately would be 69.98 - Harn's PDFs are not cheap)

I'm backing the KS at 69 bucks. I already have the current version of HarnWorld in PDF, but I don't have the Kingdom of Kaldor, and the bundle price is 75% of the price of that PDF alone, so I may be grabbing that too.

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Kickstarter - The Village of Omelette a DuckQuest Adventure

The Village of Omelette is a homage to the legendary EGG. A duckly humorous adventure set in the wondrous, wacky world of AquaLoonia.

If you don't take your fantasy with a bit of silly at times, you're missing out on a nice change of pace. Silly with a dose of realism, or vice versa, can really strike home. Thus it is with DuckQuest and The Village of Omelette.

My first knowledge of Ducks as characters in an RPG was in the old RuneQuest RPG books. Played straight, but also silly as hell, DuckQuest is a homage to those old RuneQuest adventures with ducks, and possibly even Howard the Duck. The Village of Omelette is a homage to the Village of Homlett by EGG. Homeages within homages ;)

You can snag The Village of Omelette for about 10 bucks US in PDF on Kickstarter.

Remember the old days when adventuring was fun? You set off from the village in the morning to explore the nearby ruins, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, to discover if the tales whispered in the tavern the night before were true. Welcome to Omelette, a quirky little village nestled in rolling hills a few leagues north of the Temple of Eggsistential Ennui. The villagers are keen to see what the adventurers will find, and are placing bets on who will come back in one piece. Will it be the bold knight, the clever tinker rogue, the eggcentric lizard wizzard, or the bawdy bionic bard?

The Village of Omelette

The Village of Omelette is an Adventure Zine for the tabletop roleplaying game DuckQuest, but is easily adapted to other classic RPGs. This digital release is part of Zine Quest 2023, supporting the Table Top Roleplaying Games Community globally. Join in the fun! Bring The Village of Omelette to life by backing with some ducats, and sharing the adventure with your friends!

 

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Humble Bundle - Elf Quest - The Complete Dark Horse Collection

I was a huge fan of the ElfQuest comic back in my college days (the late 80s, early 90s) and still own the ElfQuest RPG from Chaosium. I lost track of the comic when my trips to Forbidden Plant in lower Manhattan, but I still have my originals bagged.

Elf Quest - The Complete Dark Horse Collection is currently on Humble Bundle, offering 13 ElfQuest graphic novels published by Dark Horse for 18 bucks. Needless to say, I'm all in :)

Discover the saga of Cutter, chief of the elfin tribe of the Wolfriders, and his epic quest across the World of Two Moons in ElfQuest, Wendy and Richard Pini’s long-running fantasy graphic novel series. This collection features every volume of the series published by Dark Horse, including The Complete ElfQuest, The Final Quest, and Stargazer’s Hunt. Celebrate 45 years of ElfQuest, and help support The Hero Initiative with your purchase!

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Deal of the Day - Index Card RPG: Master Edition

Index Card RPG has been sold to me as the massively simple D20-powered RPG. There's lots of material in the IC RPG Master Edition, but the core rules are simple, in a good way. I have the IC RPG Master Edition in print and need to get around to giving it a solid read for review purposes, but all the talk I've heard about it has been extremely positive.

Until tomorrow morning, March 2, 2023, at 11 AM Eastern, Index Card RPG: Master Edition is on sale for 4.95 (marked down from 16.50). Do yourself a favor and snag the game that's on the lips of many in the OSR and beyond.

Index Card RPG has slowly built a die-hard following of DIY RPG creators and players over the past 5 years. Until now, it has been found in 3 hardcopy books and numerous PDF's published by Runehammer. 

This newest edition, the MASTER EDITION, combines ICRPG's numerous worlds, streamlined D20 rules and critically acclaimed GM know-how all in one PDF, all revised and updated with its latest playtest data, magic system, LOOT tables and so much more. 

-400 pages of DIY goodness: a D20 system YOU command

-Free PDF updates for life (all ICRPG past buyers will receive a FREE core rules update PDF)

-All 5 main ICRPG worlds: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Weird West, Superheroes and Ice Age

-Newly rebuilt advanced magic system

-Huge monster listing

-Collection of d100 LOOT tables and content creation tables 

-Includes FREE 150 page ADVENTURES supplement: all previously published adventures in one

-Includes portrait and landscape character sheets

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Bundle of Holding - Advanced Fighting Fantasy

I have fond memories of the Fighting Fantasy Solo Books from my early days of roleplaying. Unlike other series of solo adventuring (with the exception of Tunnels & Trolls) the Fighting Fantasy series had a very strong RPG feel. I guess this makes sense as to why a solo series was converted into a more standard-style RPG release.

The Advanced Fighting Fantasy Bundle featuring the Arion Games tabletop roleplaying game is based on the phenomenally popular Fighting Fantasy gamebooks by Steve Jackson (the British one) and Ian Livingstone. Originally published in 1989, and presented here in a .PDF ebook of its handsome 2011 Second Edition, Advanced Fighting Fantasy is a complete RPG set in the classic Fighting Fantasy world, with a fast and adaptable system ideal for beginners and well suited to long-term campaigns.

For just US$7.95 you get all four titles in this revived offer's Starter Collection (retail value $40) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the Advanced Fighting Fantasy Second Edition core rulebook, the Heroes Companion: rules expansion, The Sorcery Spell Book (the grimoire from Steve Jackson's four-book Sorcery! gamebook series), and the monster book Out of the Pit.

Advanced Fighting Fantasy Titan supplementAnd if you pay more than this revival's threshold price of $18.75, you'll level up and also get this offer's entire Bonus Collection with six more supplements and adventures worth an additional $59, including the full-length campaign Crown of Kings, the Beyond the Pit monster book, the Titan setting guide (plus the Titan Map), the Blacksand city book (and the Blacksand Map), and The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, a full-length RPG scenario based on the first and most famous Fighting Fantasy gamebook.

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Kickstarter - FANTASTIC GEOGRAPHIC # 3

An RPG zine for all systems and none.

I love the guys from Silver Bulette. Seriously. In a completely platonic manner. :)

All of the Silver Bulette releases have a certain raw energy to them, with a willingness to not be what one might expect. Or something to that effect, it's hard to explain. heh

For example, look at the cover above by Chet Milton. It looks very familiar, and it should, and yet the more you look at it, the more you discover. Hidden pieces, and punchlines to jokes you may not have heard yet, but when you do, it morphs to another level. That's kinda my expectation with Fantastic Geographic #3.

We will be printing a 48 page digest sized 'zine.

This issue of Fantastic Geographic focuses on the theme of languages. You will find articles on:

• Riddles and their use
• Ciphers and how to include them effectively
• An adventure set in a library
• An adventurer for 5E involving a missing ticket, a forger, and a hermit in the woods
• New magic items from McEwan's Mercantile
• ..and more!

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